Those in need of dialysis need not worry about the cost now. Narayana Hrudayalaya will set up 500 dialysis centres across the country to provide the facility at affordable rates."There is an estimated 1.5 lakh new dialysis patients in India annu ..

Curcumin, pepper, ginger, garlic have found their way into the labs of premier universities across the United States with Indian American scientists beginning to test natural products for treatment of cancer.“Almost every group is thinking and  ..

The endless wait for convocation certificates will now be a thing of past. Bangalore University students can now download their degree certificates and use it till they get the original ones.Launching the online certificate portal on Wednesday, Banga ..

State medical education department announced the schedule for post graduate medical entrance examinations (UPPGMEE) 2011 here on Wednesday. The responsibility to conduct the examination has also been delegated and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical  ..

Nine institutions have applied to the state education department for being granted university status , government officials said.Last year, two institutions were granted the university status namely Auro University and Uka Talsania University.This ye ..

Introduction of the MBBS course in PGI would be discussed in the academic committee meeting on January 17, which would be chaired by the union health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad. It is expected that the course would be approved in the subsequent meeti ..

UP government's project to start certain medical and paramedical colleges on a public-private-partnership (PPP) basis saw a meteoric rise and fall. However, the dream remains intact.Medical education department is now working on a new PPP project ..

Though the state government has taken several measures in recent times to streamline the medical care facility in the state, a lot still needs to be done both in terms of achieving the requisite figure of medical profes-sionals as well as building th ..

In a major development to further improve academic ambience, the Magadh University (MU) has decided to build a state-of-the-art medical college on the sprawling MU campus at Bodh Gaya.It will be built with the help of International Karma Kargyu Trust ..

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, which measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and is the smallest planet ever discovered outside the solar system.The planet has been named Kepler-10b, a NASA statement sai ..

Forty-four universities damned by the Tandon Committee and recommended for stripping of 'deemed' status will now get an opportunity to stay afloat by declaring steps taken by them to put infrastructure in place as needed under rules to deserv ..

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has asked the Union Urban Development Ministry to withdraw the notifications of the Medical Council of India (MCI) on common entrance tests for graduate and postgraduate courses, as they have been printed withou ..

Agricultural scientist K.V. Raman has been awarded the prestigious Bharat Jyoti Award of the India International Friendship Society for his contributions to science, technology and development.A former Chairman of the Agricultural Scientists Recruitm ..

Calling for quality education for all, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here on Saturday that “the systems that we put in place” (for the cause of education) should not turn barriers for the poor in accessing it.While quality educa ..

It is placement time at arts and science colleges, but the number of companies, nature of offers and the number of students getting placed, are not details colleges can boast of.According to G. Thiruvasagam, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras, the ..

While enhancing social inclusiveness in higher education is still considered important, the biggest challenge is bringing about equity in the quality of education, according to A.K. Dogra, Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission.Speaking on &ld ..

Thousands of students across the country appearing in the All-India engineering entrance examination-2011 and Armed Forces Medical College entrance examination-2011 would certainly miss one. The reason being the clash of dates of the two examinations ..

The Madras High Court on Friday directed a private medical college at Mangadu, near here, to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation to a candidate who was denied admission to MBBS on the ground that she did not reach the college before 5 p.m. on September 30 la ..

Three new medical colleges, an agriculture college, a separate university for horticulture, a university for Indian medicine and Homoeopathy and five arts and science college will be set up in the State.In his address to the Assembly, Governor Surjit ..

The Indian economy will register the second fastest growth between now and 2050 and emerge as the second biggest economy in the world by the middle of this century, according to a forecast by the consultancy group, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, released on ..